Quotes About Bias

The subject matter may have been biased but the administration assumed we were decent human beings and before classes started all we needed to learn was where the library was. Today, the administrations start with a different assumption, one that believes humanity is dark, one that sees hate and oppression everywhere, one that sees boys as rapists, and victims...victims are everywhere.

If you believe the media, all Trump voters are mouth-breathers who can barely sign their name.

The rules were clear then. If you once crossed the line from journalism into partisan politics, you could not return. They were them and we were us.

Why were humans so good at not seeing anyone who didn't fit into their vision of how things should be?

The beautiful have so much easier a time of it than the ugly, don't you think? They get smiled at the whole time. Strangers offer them things. People notice the beautiful; the beautiful are constantly acknowledged.

became a swellhead, a wise guy, an "uppity" nigger. When a white player did it, he had spirit. When a black player did it, he was "ungrateful," an upstart, a

In the stores downtown we're always followed around just because we're brown.

Womenfolk just tend to get lost, he'd always say; it's just a weakness they've got.

If you're not white, you have to be brilliant, just to be considered acceptable.

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

Before this insight, one might have been tempted to think of evolution as a completely random walk across a fitness landscape, in other words a series of steps in multidimensional sequence space where no region is more likely to be explored than any other region. But it turns out that, due to the power of selection and quasispecies, there are biases in evolution's walk through the genetic possibilities of life.

If Trump insists that judges are biased and calls the American criminal system a "laughingstock," what is to stop an autocratic leader like Duterte of the Philippines from discrediting his own judiciary?

Never trust a white person black people don't like.

Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.

And until we can see each other as equals, justice is never going to be even-handed. It will remain nothing more than a reflection of our own prejudices

A preconceived conclusion can exist and slant the findings toward that suspect.

The system reflects society. It's not always fair, but it's as fair as the system in New York, or Massachusetts, or California. It's as fair as biased, emotional humans can make it.

Gunther, like most white people, thought the idea of an innocent man on death row was absurd.

He was not talking with US, but with his IMAGE of us.

Newspapers play up as sensational every attempt by a Negro to rape a white woman. Yet this white rape of Negro women is apparently a different matter. But it is rape nonetheless, and practiced on a scale that dwarfs the Negro's defaults. The

Racists are not the pipe-smoking type, I thought to myself.

He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.